Kana

The Kana, called Canas by Spanish chroniclers, were an Aymara people in the cold grasslands north of the Vilcanota knot in southern Peru. Ayaviri was their chief town.

Around 1350 Inca Roca hired Canas and Canchis war bands against the Chankas; they later joined the Andahuaylas campaign as auxiliaries in return for plunder. When Viracocha Inca marched against the Collao kingdoms in the early fifteenth century, the Canas submitted without fighting. Their lands joined Collasuyo, and an Inca temple was built at Ayaviri.